Utility of Political Rally
Members of Parliament and members of state assemblies quarrel like roadside children and throw chairs and mike in Parliament and in state assemblies. Now they are talking of civilization, discipline and code of conduct for angry common men who throw shoes, ink and words of abuse against political leaders and media organize debate on such incidents. I treat such debate also a case of flattery to one party or the other, one person or the other by media to gain illegal support and good wishes from powerful persons.
As a matter of fact politicians in our country have done nothing for poor and common and they have simply done the politics of quota , reservation, caste , community , region and religion. Politicians spend most of their valued time in earning illegal money. In Parliament and in state assemblies , the elected representatives spend major party time in mudslinging against each other. None of important bill is discussed and debated by passed by voice vote only because the entire government is run by a few flatterers surrounding High Command of ruling party. Opposition parties are given no value even though they also represent some part of voters.
It is therefore not astonishing that angry common men have started reacting in uncivilized manner. Right from school life value is given to those students who can abuse authority and who can create valance in public life. None of the government servants and none of elected representative understand the gravity of any problem by letters, memorandum or emails, but they immediately learn the value when they are abused or when there is violent agitation on streets.
One may write peacefully hundreds of letters to any authority from Panchayat Sewak to President of India, no action will be taken by anyone and all such letters will be thrown in dustbin peacefully. Action on written complaints is taken only if there is a known person in the office who can act on the basis of flattery and bribery or who can be threatened of dire consequences as Naxalites do in many offices in many parts of the country.
In our country, good performers are not important, honesty is not important, social welfare is not important but the most important is how much false and unachievable promise one leader can make and befool voters. One who can deliver a good speech, who can win the hearts of voters by ear-pleasant sentimental speech, one who can use caste and communal group for attracting votes, one who can spend hundreds of crores of rupees in election can only win the election.
Not only in election , even in offices , PSUs and government departments, officials who speak better hijack entire administration and take all actions as per their whims and fancies, promotes and transfer their juniors arbitrarily violating all set norms and rules for the purposes. Flatterers get success in all matter and bribery gives further weightage and value to such flatterers in power lobby and in corridors where policies are framed and where style of its execution is decided.
I therefore request you to ban all rallys in election. Rally for political purposes are never used by politicians to narrate their achievement but to speak lie, make false promises and to abuse opponents. Stopping of rallys will not only help in reducing election expenses but also stop spread of dirty politics.. Leaders will not coercive methods to force vehicle owners to surrender their vehicles for use in election campaign. It will stop spending on election rally managers.
After all if a person is popular who works for common men need not organize a rally. I therefore pray you to ban all rally and ask candidates to campaign by door to door canvassing so that they may not cheat voters by false promises. If at all it is necessary to allow rally in the name of democracy you may allow rally of maximum 500 person at one place so that leaders will hesitate to say lie and local inhabitants will get an opportunity to directly interact with their probable representatives for state assemblies and Parliament.
I reiterate here that banning of rally and inaugural functions have many advantages and fewer disadvantages. Rally on the other hand has more demerits than merits and creates usually bad effects on audience.
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